Well, now that I've bored you all with descriptions of my holiday action figure acquisitions, I can admit that I'm not looking forward to having to think about what I'm going to write again.
Right now I'm thinking about display options for action figures. Hey, the kids aren't going to be kids forever! Someday they'll be tired of playing with the things and I'll have to find some way to show them off. In a decorative way. I'm not really someone with an interest in decorating--I like the things in my house to have a function. They can look nice, too, but not if that means they don't serve their purpose as well as something else. We live in our house. We do things in our house. We have a lot of books, which don't really seem to go with the home decor thing. We have lots of hobby-related stuff, which ditto. And I have never understood throw pillows so I don't have any. Besides, I don't see how a sideboard full of superheroes is any less decorative than one full of Hummels!
I actually have a theory, that the whole "less is more" school of what a home should look like comes from the media--from people gradually getting the idea that the houses they see in movies (and, later, television) are the standard to aim for. Only, no one actually lives in those houses. Your house would be spare and spotless, too, if all you had to do in it was walk through it and have dramatic interludes with other people.
The trades aren't a problem. They can go on a bookshelf, like any other book. The longboxes...well, you really do need a dedicated storage area for those, whether attic or basement or spare room or closet. But the action figures...for those, I'll need to come up with something.
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I like decorating and antiques and all of that, but I agree with you. You have to be able to actually live in your house. All those gorgeous photos never show the socks that somebody left under the coffee table, or the half-drunk mug of coffee that is still sitting on the counter.
I'm fortunate enough to have a whole ROOM for my comic books and action figures and...and stuff.
I love setting my action figures out and display them, hard when I actually decide to dust, but it is more for me than guest when I display them. I am in a transitional living arrangement right now, but I somewhere picked up on of those little knick knack shelf things, small and really has no purpose but putting small dust collectors on the wall.
I have Hero Clix on the thing. I buy the cast offs at the comic shop from the quarter container. I love looking at my silly collection. Some are really cool as well, most Hero Clix are sadly poor looking, but some are little statues in my opinion.
Sometime I should tell you about the Wall O' Marvel I had in college. Maybe I should post about that...........
Take Care.
CBG
I used to have a HUGE action figure collection, and a room to keep them in -- which was also the library, with HUGE custom-built floor-to-ceiling bookshelves full of comics, trades, and graphic novels. Then we had Mighty Mite ... and, well, the baby needed a ROOM, darnit. So, new bookshelves went up in our bedroom -- all of the comics, trades and graphic novels were moved THERE. The action figures were all sold, except for a handful of favorites. Hey, there was no place to keep 'em -- and they were just gathering dust, anyway. The huge shelves in the former library are now full of Mighty Mite's supplies and baby toys.
I haven't missed the action figures so far.
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